Hey, I warned you about breaking this thing down to its most primitive form. Well, we are still digging. God has His own set of morphemes or rather God is His own set of morphemes. Get it? He is His Word, His Word is a language and that language is made up of Words/Sounds and those Words are formed by morphemes.

A sound or combination thereof when spoken and/or written in a set specific way produces a specific pattern of communicable language which is determined strictly by him who produces the sound! Who is the Him that produces the sound of His Word? Himself, God! If this is true, and it is, then He is His Word, right? No, really, is this right? Think about it. Read it over again 'til you get it. Now, read it again, just to make sure.

If He is His Word and He is. Then what is that Word made of? Well, we understand the definition of "word" to be: "a sound or combination of…". If that is true, and it is, then what is a sound? I did warn you, I said we were almost there didn't I? Well, I really don't think we can go any farther than this, can we? Sure, we can, we need to find out what a sound is, don't we. If a word is defined as a sound in its most primary sense then doesn't it follow we should find out what a sound is?

Come on, don't quit now we are almost there, we are almost where we need to be. Once there the way back is easy, because we have already formed a trail, so now everything on the way back will be readily apparent and when we get back we will be able to explain to others where we've been all this time.

They, in turn, might want to go there themselves and now we have a map of the way. Are you understanding how all this works? You do know I am saying certain things, to say certain things, to communicate certain things. I have a goal, it is to communicate to you in the best way I know, the most comprehensible way I can, all of what God means and is, all of what He really, actually is, not what I think He is, but what He, in Truth, is. All I'm trying to do is bring you where He has brought me. We are almost there.

1. sound

a. Vibrations transmitted through an elastic material or a solid, liquid, or gas, with frequencies in the approximate range of 20 to 20,000 hertz, capable of being detected by human organs of hearing.

b. Transmitted vibrations of any frequency.

c. The sensation stimulated in the organs of hearing by such vibrations in the air or other medium.

d. Such sensations considered as a group.

2. Linguistics

a. An articulation made by the vocal apparatus: a vowel sound; a speech sound.

b. The distinctive character of such an articulation: The words bear and bare have the same sound

Two definitions here we should look at. The first definition, what is "sound". "Vibrations transmitted" is the definition of a sound in its most primal sense. In the fourth definition, specific to speech, it is "an articulation made by the vocal apparatus". O.K., so what does that tell us? A whole gamut of things to consider now, isn't there?

A sound, in it's meaning, relating to a word is: a vibration transmitted in an articulate way made by the vocal apparatus. Now if we go back to the definition of sound and add the finishing touch with the particular meaning from definition c: "the sensation stimulated in the organs of hearing by such vibrations in the air or other medium." So now we can define sound in relation to a word as this: "a vibration transmitted in an articulate way made by the vocal apparatus which stimulates the organs of hearing by such a vibration." See, easy isn't it, wasn't it? Nothing to it. We got there, we didn't lose anything and hopefully we gained a whole new outlook here.

As we go on, we will see the significance of these definitions in a direct application to God and His Word and the art of communicating that Word to us, so we all have the same ability to understand and comprehend all of what God has done for us in the person and work of Christ!

We know now what a word is; we know now what a sound is. We know now some things we didn't know when we started and that's the reason we started, isn't it?

A sound is a vibration transmitted in an articulate way made by the vocal apparatus which stimulates the organs of hearing by such a vibration.

If this is true then:

What is the vibration that causes us to hear that sound?

What is it that causes the vibration?

What is in the vibration that causes it to be a vibration?

It has got to be a substance, right? There has got to be something within that vibration itself that causes our ear to react to it. Something of substance that causes our ear to be moved by this vibration in order to actually "hear" a sound.

Something of substance that was produced, made by us, or whoever spoke the sound. Something in the formation of that sound with a vocal apparatus. The mouth spoke and we heard it with our ear. The mouth transmitted a vibration, an articulate sound, a sound understandable, that when caught by our ear was understood by us. You know what we call that, don't you? Communication.

Looking at it basically we have this:

Sound -> Morpheme –> Word –> Language -> Communication